When we were first married and had moved out here to AZ we lived near my sister Shannon and her family. We had gone to a meeting together about how to start, store, and utilize a year supply of food. It was a lot of info and my head was swimming. I felt excited, anxious, and overwhelmed. I had a small stack of papers in my hand and I knew they would be useful at some point. Shannon gave me my very first nugget of info for doing something with all of that information… She said, start a food storage file. Stick those papers in it, it will grow. Now, 10 years later as I have pulled that file out of its place countless times, I remembered what she had said. And that file has grown. It’s a nice big fat file of beautiful information.
Many of you have heard, or know that Mormons have a goal to store a year supply of food. It’s quite a task! In fact, it took me 5 years to even begin because there were so many different ways of planning for it. Plan by pounds (get 400 lbs. of wheat, get 100 lbs. of corn meal, 150 lbs. of sugar, etc.) plan by meal, (get everything you need for a spaghetti meal and multiply it by 52.) And then somewhere in between. Then you have your 72 hour kits, your water supply, toiletries, medicines… the list goes on.
I am at a point in my life where I just get what I can, when I can. Sometimes I get ambitious and I organize and plan, roll with it for a while, and then I scrap that plan and try something else! But, I am getting somewhere.
Now we have been married for 10 years, I still have my food storage file of information, and I still feel excited, anxious, and overwhelmed by food storage. It is one of my 2012 goals to get a concrete plan to continue storing and using my year supply.
“Remember, a year’s supply is not so much a matter of dollars and cents as it is of faith and obedience.” - Unknown
It was so fun to see you New Years Eve, keep up on that food storage, I tell myself a can or jar at a time!
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